Males were targeted. Females were left untouched. The reason comes down to the thickness of a shell.

The only known female member of one of the world's rarest turtle species has died at a zoo in southern China, officials said Sunday. The animal was one of four Yangtze giant softshell turtles known to ...

Cinnamon Tyler, a member of the Navarre Beach Sea Turtle Conservation Center "nesting team," estimated that at least 250 to 300 newly hatched sea turtles died last year when lighting from off the ...